Why did google buy a video site when they already had Google Video in Beta. Was the competition too stiff for them?
2006-10-09 11:46:29 · 12 answers · asked by ukslice 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
Video is part of their mission statement. And having the second largest Free video directory they took over the Largest One. You Tube got famous and more trendy then google with its mass appeal and content approval. Getting your video up on YouTube is much easier than Google. And Google was made to make our lives easier. So for video they bought something that was better than them.
Something which Microsoft never did and now is looking around the ways to beat Google, Yahoo, Apple, IBM and everybody who are far ahead from them in technology and user experiance.
2006-10-09 11:51:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Google have deep pockets and have bought arguably the most popular website on the web. YouTube the default for video and user generated content, has a significant number of unique visitors and was crying out for one of the big boys to step in and work out how it was going to monetise all of the eyeballs which visit it everyday.
Google Video was always going to struggle to match YouTube, so why not buy it?
2006-10-09 18:51:50 · answer #2 · answered by TJ 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To finish the concurrency between Google Video and YouTube becase YouTube is more powerfull (more people watch a video there than at Google).
2006-10-09 18:50:44 · answer #3 · answered by iguana 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Youtube is already an established site, with potential for expansion and profit. This was a no-brainer type of deal for Google.
2006-10-09 19:01:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they want to have it all. If im correct they bought youtube.com. They did this so that they can i have the most results on the web for videos.
2006-10-09 18:56:20 · answer #5 · answered by what? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they have bought it and the reason is contained in the following article
2006-10-09 18:55:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anchor Cranker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple. To make money.
2006-10-09 19:04:50 · answer #7 · answered by ckm1956 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
buying out the competition then fcuk it up
2006-10-09 19:01:54 · answer #8 · answered by Barson 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They didn't "buy" it yet...
Read:
http://news.yahoo.com/s//nm/20061009/bs_nm/media_google_dc
2006-10-09 18:48:43 · answer #9 · answered by ○Freeman○ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because they can.
2006-10-09 18:59:50 · answer #10 · answered by Dee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋